:: "VALENTINE'S DAY" GOOD OR BAD TO CELEBRATE ? ::

[ VALENTINE'S DAY ]

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so, nk story ape arinie...just wanna share with all of you my opinion about "Valentine's day" !!

what is Valentine's Day ???

The Festival of Love was one of the festivals of the pagan Romans, when paganism was the prevalent religion of the Romans more than 17th Centuries ago. In the pagan Roman concept, it was an expression of  "spiritual love" .. There were myths associated with this pagan festival of the Roman, which persisted with their Christian heirs .. Among the most famous of these myths was the Roman belief that Romulus, the founder of Rome, was suckled one day by a she-wolf , which gave him strength and wisdom .. The Romans used to celebrate this event in mid-February each year with a big festival which is on 14/2 every year ...

One of the rituals of this festival was the sacrifice of a dog and a goat .. Two strong and muscular youths would daub the blood of the dog and goat onto their bodies, then they would wash the blood away with milk .. After that there would be a great parade, with these two youths at its head, which would go about the streets .. The two youths would have pieces of leather with which they would hit everyone who crossed their path .. The Romans women would welcome these blows, because they believed that they could prevent or cure infertility ..

The connection Between Saint Valentine and this festival

Saint Valentine is a name which is given to two of the ancient " martyrs " of the Christian church .. It was said that there were two of them, or that there was only one, who died in Rome as the result of the persecution of the Gothic leader, c. 296 CE. In 350 CE, a church was built in Rome on the site of the place where he died, to perpetuate his memory ..  When the Romans embranced Christianity, they continued to celebrate the Feast of Love mentioned above, but they changed it from the pagan concept of " spiritual love " to another concept known as the " martyrs of love " , represented by Saint Valentine who had advocated love and peace, for which cause he was martyred, according to their claims .. It was also called the Feast of Lovers, and Saint Valentine was considered to be the patron saint of lovers ..

One of their false beleifs connected with this festival was that the names of girls who had reached marriageable age would be written on small rolls of paper and placed in a dish on a table .. Then the young men who wanted to get married would be called, and each of them would pick a piece of paper .. He would put himself at the service of the girl whose name he had drawn for one year, so that they could find out about one another .. They they would get married, or they would repeat the same process again on the day of the festival in the following year .. The Christian clergy reacted against this tradition, which they considered to have a corrupting influence on the morals of young men and women .. It was put an end in Italy, where it had been well-known, then it was revived in the 18th and 19th centuries, when in some western countries there appeared shop which sold small books called " Valentine's books ", which contained love poems, from which the one who wanted to send a greeting to his sweetheart could choose .. They also contained suggestions for writing love letters ..  

I think thats a little bit bout' what is Valentine's Day .. and I know that some of you have already know bout' the history as well .. or u guys have ur own story regarding on the history of this kind of event ..  and everyone has their own opinion towards Valentine's Day, so do I ..

As a muslim, I think we are not allowed to celebrate the Valentine's Day .. We know that, Islam is the religion of humanity, true love, and cooperation on that which is good and righteous .. We pray Allah Almighty to gather us together under the umbrella of His All-encompassing Mercy .. and to unite us together as one man ..

As for me, there are forms of expressing love that are religiously acceptable, while there are others that are not .. Among the forms of acceptable love are those that include the love for Prophets and Messengers .. It stands to reason that the love for Allah, and his Messenger should have the top priority over all ither forms of love .. And Islam does also recognize happy occassions that bring people closer to one another, and add some spice to their lives .. However, Islam goes against blindly copying the West regarding a special occassion such as Valentine's Day .. As we know, Valentine's Day is being celebrate by all people around the world on the 14th of February every year .. It shows that, on that day, people are showing their true love and appreciation towards their love ones and exchange love feeling towards another .. exchanging roses and presents are very common things to do on Valentine's Day .. This is not the one that Islam teach to their follower because Islam requires all Muslims to love one another all over the whole year, and reducing the whole year to a single day is totally rejected .. And for your information, this issues has been told in the " khutbah Jumaat " last Friday .. it said that, we must avoid from celebrating Valentine's Day because it been rejected in Islam .. In addition, all sort of things that are similar to the West are not recommended to follow because similarity to other religious are rejected in Islam and reduced to a moral decline .. so, as for the conclusion, I guess we must follow what Islam teach us to do .. and for this case, we have to avoid from celebrating Valentine's Day ..

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